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Chevron has already lost the lawsuit filed against the company by a group of Indigenous villagers and rural Ecuadorians who say Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, left behind hundreds of open, unlined pits full of toxic oil waste it had dug into the floor of the Amazon rainforest...

In a move sure to upset climate change deniers around the world, Pope Francis plans to issue a papal encyclical this summer that will urge international action to protect the world from global warming...

Four years into the historic drought in California, Gov. Jerry Brown announced mandatory water restrictions for the first time ever. The restrictions, laid out on April 1, ordered urban water use to be decreased by 25 percent.

After two decades of being defended and feared by its movie star members, the Church of Scientology now appears to be in retreat, with Hollywood no longer wary of exposing and questioning the movement’s practices.

California’s drought has gotten so terrible that the government is finally taking steps to try to preserve the existing (though dwindling) supply. While a lot of the responsibility is falling on the citizens to monitor their personal use, corporations could accept their own share of the problem, especially when they’re wasting a lot of water on some stupid things...

These stats are horrifying!

China. Spain. India. U.S.

These places are on different sides of the world, yet they're all dealing with water crises in some form: not enough water, not enough clean water, no way to actually get the water ... you get the idea.

We're running out of fresh water.

I know, I know. Your long, hot shower this morning may make you think otherwise. But trust me. In many places, we — as in humans — just don't have enough. In fact, lots of folks aren't fortunate enough to get even close to that luxury.

A former police chief who served the twin towns that the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints dominates is coming forward for the first time, claiming he lived in fear that Warren Jeffs and other church leaders would take his family away if he didn’t do their bidding...

Anyone who has seen Tom Cruise jump on Oprah Winfrey’s couch knows he can be a bit of a kook. That impression is amplified, to put it gently, by Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, a new documentary by Alex Gibney, who won an Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side.

Shortly after 6am on the morning of July 8, 1977, Special Agent Elmer "Lindy" Linberg stood at the gate in front of 4833 Fountain Avenue and pushed the call button. The night caretaker of the Los Angeles building came out, walked about 10 feet toward the gate, and then stopped.

Every good magician knows that the key to success is misdirecting the audience. You have to draw everyone’s attention away from your ultimate goal in order to perform the trick. Politics is no different, and one of the greatest misdirections in recent memory has been pulled off by the fossil fuel industry.

In "Merchants of Doubt,” the subject is global warming. Or, more precisely, the business of denying the existence of climate change. Even the term “climate change” is a product of spin, coined by conservative politicians who felt it sounded less threatening than “global warming."